Read This Before You Eat Your Jell-O

by Michael Y. Park

on 10/15/12 at 05:17 PM

Io9 revives a great Straight Dope piece from a couple years back recalling the time a neurologist hooked up an EEG to lime Jell-O to show that the delicious gelatin actually gave off brain waves, and thus -- by the standards he was making a point about -- couldn't technically be declared brain dead if you were going by the machine alone. (Presumably, a judicious doctor would be able to use his other senses to determine that his patient was not only not alive, but in fact a jiggly dessert.)

Cecil Adams even points out that the "brainwaves" from the Jell-O look remarkably like those from a normal, non-Jell-O adult. He did not, however, note whether or not anyone at the neurology demonstrations ate the test subjects after the presentation.